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{{TagBase|image=Featured.png|r=255|g=201|b=38
|content=The next featured article gets chosen on '''October 1, 2017'''.<br>The current vote leaders are '''[[Home-Run Bat]]''' and '''[[Screen KO]]''' with totals of '''+5''' each.}}
'''Featured articles''' are considered to be the best articles on SmashWiki, as determined by our editors. Before being listed here, articles should be reviewed for accuracy, completeness, and style.  A small, stylized ''Super Smash Bros.'' logo with a star on an article's page indicates that the article is featured, or has been featured in the past.
'''Featured articles''' are considered to be the best articles on SmashWiki, as determined by our editors. Before being listed here, articles should be reviewed for accuracy, completeness, and style.  A small, stylized ''Super Smash Bros.'' logo with a star on an article's page indicates that the article is featured, or has been featured in the past.


You can view all prior featured articles and their snippets on [[SmashWiki:Featured content/Full]].
You can view all featured article snippets on [[SmashWiki:Featured content/Full]].


==Rules and regulations==
==Rules and regulations==
*Featured articles will be chosen around a bimonthly basis, though there is no set timeline for when a new featured article will be implemented.
*Feature articles will be chosen quarterly: on the first of January, April, July, and October.
*Like most other proposals on the wiki, featured articles will not be chosen based on vote count alone, admins can override the most popular suggested article if they deem it of unsatisfactory quality, or otherwise find another article to be more feature-worthy.
:*New suggestions may not be added in the month leading up to the next featured article (e.g. no suggestions in December because it's a month before January).
*For the inherent eligibility for an article to be featured, keep the following in mind:
*Feature articles will be chosen based on vote count alone. The initial suggestion counts as one vote to the positive, and users may not therefore vote again.  
**Any articles with a maintenance template on it is not eligible to be featured. If you want to feature an article tagged with such a template, fix the issues the article was tagged with the template for before trying to suggest it.
:*The article with the highest vote total (supports being +1, opposes being -1) will be chosen.
***Note that this does not apply to articles with templates that indicate an issue with the page that likely cannot be fixed, such as a tournament tagged with {{t|LostResults}} or an image tagged with {{t|HighQualityUnavailable}}.
:*In the event of a tie, an admin picks which article gets used.
**Articles in the Smasher, Tournament, and Team spaces are eligible for featuring, but they should cover especially notable subjects to be considered, and must have substantial content on them beyond just a table of results. Additionally, any Smasher article not fully updated to our [[SW:SMASHER|current standards]] will be automatically rejected.
*Suggestions expire:
**Articles about subjects that encompass insubstantial content should not be considered for featuring.
:*a year after they are given, should they not be chosen.
**Articles that have been featured previously are eligible to be refeatured. Any article that was featured before [[SmashWiki:Featured content/Full|FA54]] can be considered automatically eligible for refeaturing, but going forward, any articles featured after that point should be only be considered for refeaturing if substantial new information has been added to it since its original featuring, or other feature candidates are just so lackluster that SmashWiki is better off refeaturing the same content.
:*quarterly if they have a score of less than 0.
*Suggestions expire after no set time, but admins can reject them if they prove unpopular or otherwise gain little traction after a long enough time, assuming there's no glaring quality issue with the suggested article to reject it outright.
*There may be no more than 10 suggestions at any one time.
*Each user is limited to having only one suggestion up at a time, and users may not withdraw their own suggestions. Additionally, once a user has made a suggestion, they may not make a new suggestion for two months regardless of if they have a suggestion currently up or not.
*<s>Each user is limited to one suggestion per voting period.</s>
*Suggested articles that were rejected are not automatically disqualified from being suggested again, but if the issues that resulted in it being rejected haven't been addressed, it will promptly get rejected again.
*All suggestions will be archived when they pass or fail.
*All suggestions will be archived when they pass or fail.
**[[/Archive 1|Archive 1]]
**[[/Archive 1|Archive 1]]
**[[/Archive 2|Archive 2]]
**[[/Archive 2|Archive 2]]
**[[/Archive 3|Archive 3]]
*All votes should be '''bolded''' or they will not be counted. (e.g. "'''support''' because this page is the greatest of them all!")
 
==Things to consider==
The following is a list of things to consider, both when nominating and voting on an article
#'''Quality and completeness of the article:''' Does the article sufficiently cover the topic at hand? Is it comprehensible and easy to follow? Are images used effectively and not excessively? Is the article lacking in grammar and spelling errors?
#'''Relevance to Smash''': Is the article directly related to the Smash series, or is it more tangential?
#'''Requirements''': Does the article have a sufficiently lengthy opening paragraph that it will fill out the featured article space on the main page? Does the article have an identifying image to accompany this description? Has the article been featured before (we do not accept articles that have already been featured)?


==How to request that an article be featured==
==How to request that an article be featured==
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*Be sure to sign your proposition with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>
*Be sure to sign your proposition with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>


Other users may then respond expressing either support or opposition to the suggestion. Users should judge an article for how feature-worthy it is based on the article's comprehensiveness of the subject at hand, how well-written the article is, how accurate the information within the article is, if the article is clean of errors, and every other thing that contributes to an article's quality (e.g. how effectively are images used in the article). Users should not base their judgment on things not related to the article's content, such as how interesting they personally find the article's subject or assume others would find it, if the article would be too "complicated" for the average reader, how "relevant" they think the article subject is, nor based on how frequent similarly themed articles have been featured in the past. "Votes" based on reasons that have little-to-nothing to do with the article's content will be ignored. The exception is with Smasher, Tournament, and Team articles, where the subject's notability will also be considered as mentioned previously.
==Proposed Featured Articles==
===[[Bayonetta (SSB4)]]===
This article is well made, and the topic of Bayonetta is a big one, as she is fun in casuals, and strong in competitive play too. [[User:LCS|LCS]] ([[User talk:LCS|talk]]) 07:36, 17 March 2017 (EDT)
 
'''Support''' for one reason: SMASHING! [[User:Dragonfirebreath25|Dragonfirebreath25]] ([[User talk:Dragonfirebreath25|talk]]) 09:58, 21 March 2017 (EDT)
*'''Weak oppose'''. Not concise enough IMO. [[File:Nyargleblargle.png|16px]][[User: Nyargleblargle|<span style="color:LawnGreen">'''Nyargle</span>]][[User talk:Nyargleblargle|<span style="color: orange;">'''blargle'''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Nyargleblargle|Contribs]]) 16:06, 18 June 2017 (EDT)\
'''Support''' because Bayo is at the top of the tier list. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Furry Nation'''</span>]] 21:24, 21 June 2017 (EDT)


==Proposed featured articles==
'''Oppose'''. I don't see where it stands out and it's unconcise also. -- [[User:Ethan7|<span style="color:#000f55;font-family:Cursive;font-style:italic">Ethan</span>]][[file:Ethan7sig.png|20px|link=User:Ethan7]]<small>''([[User talk:Ethan7|<span style="color:Blue">Discussion</span>]])''</small> 16:59, 22 June 2017 (EDT)
===Anniversaries===
The title is intentionally vague because it encompasses more than just one article, but stay with me on this one.


Obviously, we could have a standard "featured article" that stays up as normal, but I think it would be really cool to feature an article for a character or series for a single day based on their date of origin. As examples, even though we just passed it, we could have the pages for [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] or the {{uv|Sonic the Hedgehog}} universe on June 23rd; we could have the pages for [[Ryu]], [[Ken]], or the {{uv|Street Fighter}} universe on August 30th; we could have the pages for [[Cloud Strife]] or [[Sephiroth]] on January 31st, but the {{uv|Final Fantasy}} universe page on December 18th, since the series debuted on the latter date, but ''Final Fantasy VII'' released in Japan on the former date. We are an encyclopedic website covering information about all of these different video game series, so I think it would be really cool to honor them in some significant way. I should note that this would only be limited to playable characters, Assist Trophies, and {{rollover|stages|note that the stages would not be the featured article itself, but rather the universe they come from, like Nintendogs or Electroplankton|y}}, as to not make this absolutely insane, but I think it would be super neat for us to do something like that.
===[[Ryu (SSB4)]]===
This article is very good and with a great summary, this fighter has it all! Can I do it... SURE YOU CAN! [[User:Dragonfirebreath25|Dragonfirebreath25]] ([[User talk:Dragonfirebreath25|talk]]) 21:29, 8 April 2017 (EDT)
*'''Support.''' The pipes are broken! <span style="font-family:Mario Party 2/3 Textbox">[[User:RickTommy|<span style="color:red">Rick</span>]][[User talk:RickTommy|<span style="color:green">Tommy</span>]]</span> 01:04, 22 June 2017 (EDT)
*'''Oppose''' Attributes section is marked for cleanup, and I fully agree: His up-tilt shoryuken isn't ''even mentioned'' directly from what I can tell. Looks like a Ryu main mostly wrote it since it does have too much in-depth on weaknesses to compensate for lack of strengths. Plus there are brackets ]] floating next to "air acceleration"; just fixed it. [[User: RobSir_zx|<span style="color:orange">Rob</span>]][[User talk:RobSir_zx|<span style="color:blue">'''Sir '''</span>]][[File:RobSir-sig.jpg|16px]] [[Special:Contributions/RobSir zx|<span style="color:red">zx</span>]] 03:56, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
*'''Oppose'''. Not at all concise enough. [[File:Nyargleblargle.png|16px]][[User: Nyargleblargle|<span style="color:LawnGreen">'''Nyargle</span>]][[User talk:Nyargleblargle|<span style="color: orange;">'''blargle'''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Nyargleblargle|Contribs]]) 15:47, 2 September 2017 (EDT)


We ''could'' also have a "today's anniversary" template on the main page, but where's the fun in that? [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: black;">'''Aidan'''</span>]] [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: grey;">'''the</span> <span style="color: white; text-shadow: 0 0 2px black;">Ace</span> <span style="color: purple;">Gamer'''</span>]] 13:55, June 26, 2023 (EDT)
===[[Home-Run Bat]]===
:How would characters/universes without specific anniversaries like Pac-Man, Bomberman and Virtua Fighter be handled? And in cases such as Mario and Donkey Kong, does that mean that we'll need to feature four articles? Pokémon alone would need a whopping eight articles featured, depending on how you count the Trainer's Pokémon. That will get overwhelming very quickly if they'll be featured as prominently as regular featured articles. [[File:NokiiSig.png|link=User_talk:Nokii]] '''[[User:Nokii|<span style="color:#89F">Nokii</span>]] ·''' 14:58, June 26, 2023 (EDT)
Fully explains the topic without over inflating it with unnecessary fluff. Also, *[[:File:Ping.ogg|KREEEEENG!]]* <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:12pt">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #0b7">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #fd0">King</span>]]'''</span> 04:56, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
::Note how I used the word "or" ("Sonic the Hedgehog '''''or''''' the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' universe", "Ryu, Ken, '''''or''''' the ''Street Fighter'' universe", "Cloud Strife '''''or''''' Sephiroth")—it would only be one page as the featured article at a time, cycling through a predetermined pattern. For stuff like Pac-Man, Bomberman, and Virtua Fighter, I want to say that Sakurai has posted on Twitter for those anniversaries in the past, and we could use those dates as a basis—if not, we could use the first of the month that they debuted in (and if it came down to only knowing a year, then we could reach some agreement on how to handle that). I'd be more than happy to compile information surrounding my above suggestion to make sure everyone knew what was associated with which date. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: yellow;">'''Aidan'''</span>]] [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: white; text-shadow: 0 0 2px black;">'''the</span> <span style="color: purple;">Nonbinary</span> <span style="color: black;">Gamer'''</span>]] 14:19, June 27, 2023 (EDT)
*'''Support''' Very useful in the [[Home-Run Contest]] with [[Sandbag]]. [[User:Dragonfirebreath25|Dragonfirebreath25]] ([[User talk:Dragonfirebreath25|talk]]) 11:48, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
*'''Support''' Even describes damage tables. [[:User:ZeldaStarfoxfan2164|ZeldaStarfoxfan2164]] ([[User talk:ZeldaStarfoxfan2164|talk]]) is a never lover boy  18:15, 5 August 2017 (EDT)
*'''Support''' [[File:AidanzapunkSig1.png|20px]][[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Wandering Dragon Warrior'''</span>]][[File:AidanzapunkSig2.png|20px]] 20:57, 1 September 2017 (EDT)
*'''Support'''. Solid detail and not too lengthy. [[File:Nyargleblargle.png|16px]][[User: Nyargleblargle|<span style="color:LawnGreen">'''Nyargle</span>]][[User talk:Nyargleblargle|<span style="color: orange;">'''blargle'''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Nyargleblargle|Contribs]]) 15:47, 2 September 2017 (EDT)


===[[Kazuya (SSBU)]]===
===[[Announcer]]===
This article looks very well written for an [[Downloadable content (SSBU)|''Ultimate'' DLC character]] to me, especially considering the amount of technical data articles we at SmashWiki had to create for Kazuya's 38 moves. It must've taken a lot of willing contributors and/or massive effort to bring the article to its near-complete if not complete status we have today, including the articles detailing his [[command-input move]]s, special moves, [[Crouch Dash]], technical data for each move (except for [[Heaven's Door]] and [[Final Blaster]], which do not have technical articles yet), etc. Deserves featured article status to me. [[User:Jordan P.|Jordan P.,]] [[User talk:Jordan P.|the Sora main]] [[File:SoraHeadSSBUWebsite.png|15px]] 00:17, June 28, 2023 (EDT)
From Jeff Manning to Xander Mobus, the announcer is the judge of every battle. He can tell the player when time is up, declare a winner, and even announce the character's name. [[User:Dragonfirebreath25|Dragonfirebreath25]] ([[User talk:Dragonfirebreath25|talk]]) 11:48, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
:Right away I notice the bloated gallery and trivia sections, I'm not even going to bother reviewing the rest of the article as long as these two glaring problems have not been addressed yet, which are two things directly stated as needing cleaning up in our [[SW:Project|projects page]]. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[File: TyranitarMS.png ]] 06:26, June 28, 2023 (EDT)
:'''Oppose''' The article seems a little bloated with unneeded filler. <span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:10pt;background:#000;border:outset #083 2px;padding:1px">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">Serpent</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|12px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0">King</span>]]'''</span> 17:54, 3 September 2017 (EDT)
::I know how these sections are usually laid out, because I've seen a lot of SSBU's character articles, if not all. It displays from left to right the newcomer splash art, the amiibo, the unlock notice, promotional screenshots, and screenshots from Sakurai's Pic of the Day series on Twitter. Additionally, like other articles, the trivia section states miscellaneous facts. What could we clean up to me? For me, that's inconsistent. [[User:Jordan P.|Jordan P.,]] [[User talk:Jordan P.|the Sora main]] [[File:SoraHeadSSBUWebsite.png|15px]] 00:18, June 30, 2023 (EDT)
:::Read the projects page, and a bunch of other character articles being like that does not make it ok, the fact so many of them have bloated trivia and gallery sections '''''is why''''' it's a wiki project. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[File: TyranitarMS.png ]] 06:29, June 30, 2023 (EDT)


===[[King K. Rool (SSBU)]]===
===[[Screen KO]]===
A very well written page with numerous images, as well as a great summary on his weaknesses and strengths. All of K. Rool's moves have technical data and their own weaknesses and strengths. I believe the only issue with this page is the missing announcer calls, which is a very small things. I think this article should be featured for these reasons, this page is the greatest of them all. [[User:EpicMagicBoi6|EpicMagicBoi6]] ([[User talk:EpicMagicBoi6|talk]]) 21:47, July 2, 2023 (EDT)
Great first paragraph and image for featuring, and the article is complete for lack of a better word. In every interation thus far and a rather zany part of smash gameplay. The star KO doesn't even break the 4th wall, mind you! [[User: RobSir_zx|<span style="color:orange">Rob</span>]][[User talk:RobSir_zx|<span style="color:blue">'''Sir '''</span>]][[File:RobSir-sig.jpg|16px]] [[Special:Contributions/RobSir zx|<span style="color:red">zx</span>]] 00:35, 12 July 2017 (EDT)
:This article has bloated trivia that needs to be fixed, and the gallery isn't as bad as some others I seen but there are clearly a few images that are only there because "this image has K. Rool in it" rather than serving a distinct informative purpose. Like I said with Kazuya, these need to be addressed before reviewing the page farther to consider if it's feature-worthy. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[File: TyranitarMS.png ]] 12:10, July 3, 2023 (EDT)
:'''Support''' Anyone can tell I absolutely love Screen KOs, I really think without them and Star KOs, Smash wouldn't be the same. [[User:KirbysCrazyAppetite|Kirby's Crazy Appetite]] ~ [[File:KirbysCrazyAppetiteSig.png|50x20px]] 00:43, 12 July 2017 (EDT)
:'''Support''' I love Screen KOs! ''Smash'' won't be the same without that and we need it to keep the battle going. [[User:Dragonfirebreath25|Dragonfirebreath25]] ([[User talk:Dragonfirebreath25|talk]]) 23:05, 27 July 2017 (EDT)
:'''Oppose''' Needs more explanation. [[:User:ZeldaStarfoxfan2164|ZeldaStarfoxfan2164]] ([[User talk:ZeldaStarfoxfan2164|talk]]) is bad for me  01:53, 28 July 2017 (EDT)
:'''Weak support'''. Trivia section is a bit long, but no real issues in layout or writing style. [[File:Nyargleblargle.png|16px]][[User: Nyargleblargle|<span style="color:LawnGreen">'''Nyargle</span>]][[User talk:Nyargleblargle|<span style="color: orange;">'''blargle'''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Nyargleblargle|Contribs]]) 15:47, 2 September 2017 (EDT)
:'''Support''' for being my favourite thing in the entire freaking game. Well, besides Yoshi. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|'''Furry Nation''']]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the Internets go! :3''']]</span> 03:00, 3 September 2017 (EDT)
:'''Support''' It's not too long, but it has most of the information needed for the article, in my opinion, so I'm voting for this one. --[[User:Vinc420|Mr. Loser]] ([[User talk:Vinc420|talk]]) 21:50, 6 September 2017 (EDT)

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